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tn(^ two broad -, thcfe are without foot-flalks, growing 

 dole to the root, and fcem as if fet on by pairs, 

 fpreading open each way, and from between tliele 

 leaves the flowers are produced fingly, having no 

 foot-ftalks, but are clofely embraced by the leaves ; 

 the flowers are white, having a bright purple bottom. 

 Theie are not fuccceded by^any fruit in Englanch 

 The fecond fort hath roots fomewhat like thole of tlie 

 firfl:, but are fliorter, grov/ing in large ckulers, covered 

 with ^n Afn-colcured Ikin, but within are white ^ from 

 the roots arife the leaves, which fold over each other 

 at their bafe-, they are fix or eight inches long, and 

 three broad in the middle, gradually ending in acute 

 points ; the flowers arife immediately from the roots, 

 each having a fpatha (or (heath) at bottom cut into 

 two fcgments, which clofely embrace the foot-ftalk •, 

 thefe have fix petals, the tjiree lower which decline 

 downward are long and narrow, the two upper are 

 divided fo deeply as to appear like a flower with four 

 petals, and the fide petal is bifid -, they are of mixed 

 colours, blue, purple, white and red, having 

 odour: they flower in July and Auguft, but do not 

 produce feeds in England 

 Thefe - ' • 



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ceous white colour, and appear in May, at v;!.i 



with l-.av: 



tune the plants are tiiinly garnillicd 



moll of tl 



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lor 



he old leaves drop juft before the ncvv oneiU'^- 

 le male flowers fall away foon after thv.'ir firi n 



pear. Th 



is filed, butthe hermaphrodite flowei 



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h^CLcdcdln- 



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a fragrant 



plant 



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being natives of liot countries, will not 

 bear the open air in England, fo requires a warm 

 Hove to preferve them through the winter ; but as 

 their leaves decay in the autumn, fo the plants fliould 

 not have too much wet v;hile they are in an inadive 

 Hate. If the plants are placed in the bark-ftove, and 

 treated in the fame manner as is direfted for the 

 Ginger, they will thrive, and produce plenty of 

 flowers every fuminer. They are both propagated 

 by parting of their roots •, the bell: time for this is in 

 the ipring, juft before they begin to put out their 

 leaves. • ' v -. 



KETMIA. See Hibiscus. 



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ICIGGEL ARIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. looi. Laurus.. 



Stcrb. We have no Englifii title for this plant... 



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he Characters are,- ; - v-.,.^ ,^^ 





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Tbe hermapbrcdite 



It kathmakavdbermdpB-cditefx^^^^ 



" ■ trees ; the mate ficioers have an '"impalement of cne_ leaf 



'J' cut into five concave fegme^its^ and five concave petals 



''*' ivhkh are longer than the empalement^ Jhaped like a 



pitcher % each of the petals have a honey gland faftened to 



• their bafe., xvhich have three chttife lobes and are coloured^ 



' faflened to the tails of the petals ; they have ten fnallfla- 



mina., terminated by oblong fummits, 



' fiowers have empalements and petals like the male^ hut few 



of them have ftaraina. In the center is fttnated a roimdifh 



gernwu fupporting five ftyles^ crovrned by obtiife Jligmas. 



'The germen aftcrvoard beecii:cs a rough globular fruit 



ivi-tb a thick cover^ having one cell-y filled voith angular 



' feed^s, ' . ' 



This genu5 of plants is ranged in the ninth fecflion of 



Linn^us's tv/enty-fecond clafs, intitled Dioecia De- 



candria ; but it ijyauld be removed to his twenty-third 



xlais, ^s the hermaphrodite flowers "are fruitful, tho' 



they are fituate4 upon diftincl plants, whole male 

 fiov/ers have ten fl:amina. ' - ' ' - - •» 



■ We have but ox\^ Species of this penus, viz. 

 KiGGELARiA {Afrtcana.) Hort. Clifl\ 462. fol. 29. Euony- 

 ■ mo-afEnis ^thiopica fempervirens, fruftu globofo fca- 

 \ bro, foliis falicis rigidis ferratls. H. L. 139. An 

 ' 'Ethiopian Evergreen plant refembling the Spindle-tree^ 

 with a rough globular fruity and ftiff fawed V/illow 

 ■ teaves, . . , = ■ .'■ . . 



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' . This plant grows naturally at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 ""' where it rifes to be a tree of middlinp- ftature ; but as 

 "" It will not live in the open air here, they cannot be 

 .^cxpeded to grow to a great magnitude in England. 

 ;;/rhere are plants of it in the Chelfea garden upward 

 "• of ten feet high, with ftrong woody fl:ems and pretty 

 ' , large heads ; the branches have a fmoodi bark, wljjch 

 is firfl: green, but afterward changes to a purplifli co- 

 lour; the leaves are about three inches long and one 

 broad, of a hghr green colour, and fiiwed on their 

 edges, ftanding upon fliort foot-flalks alternately. The 

 • tlov/ers come out in cluucrs from the fide of the 

 hranches, and hang "downward j they arc of an herba- 



o-rown to their full fize in the Chelfea o-^rdcn I- 

 the feeds have rarely come to maturity here. 



Thefe plants were not very common in Europe fon^e 

 years" pafl:, being very difficult to propagate, unlds ■ 

 by feeds, which fome plants both in iTuiiand and 

 England have lately produced, fo that they are now 

 much more plenty than they v/erc in both countries- 

 for when any of the young branches are laid down' 

 they are two years before they put out roots and 

 fcarce one in five will then have any roots; nor do 

 the cuttings fucceed better, for not one in tvventy of 

 them will take root, when planted v/ith the utmoit 

 care: the beft time to plant the cuttings is in tlie 

 fpring, juft before the plants begin to fnooc ; thcle 

 itiould be planted in pots filled with a fcf t loamy eartl' 

 and plunged into a very moderate hot-bed, coverin^r 

 them clofe with a glafs, to exclude the air from thenf 

 and fhade them every day from the fun j they flioukj 

 have very little water atter their firil planting. If any 

 of them grow, they fl:iould be planted into feparatc 

 fmall pots, filled with loam.y earth, and iuay be cx- 

 pofed to the air in a flieltered fituation till autumn, 

 when they mutt be ren"!Oved into the green-houfe, and 

 treated in the fame manner as Orange- trees 

 K I T C H E N-G A R D E N. A good Kitchen-garden 

 , is alrriofl: as'necefl^ar}^ to a country feat, as a laichen 

 to the houfeV'for without one, there is no v/ay of 

 ; bdng.fupplied wkh a great part of neceflliry food \ the 

 ''markets in the* country being but poorly furniflied 

 r with efciilent Kerbs,'' and thofe only upon the market 

 r days, which are feldom offener than once a week ; fa 

 ^ that unlefs a perfon has a garden of his own, there 

 will be no fuch thing as procuring them frefh, in which, 

 their* go63nefs confills j nor can any variety of thefe 

 be had in the country markets; therefore vvhoever 

 propofes to refide in the country, fliould be careful 

 to make choice of a proper fpot of ground for this 

 purpofe; and the fooner that is made and planted, 

 the produce of it will be earlier in perfe6lion •, for 

 fruit-trees and Afparagus require three years to grov/, 

 before any produce can be expected from them ; fo 

 that the later the garden is made, the lono-er it will 

 be before a fupply of thefe things can be had for the 

 table. And although the ufefulnefs of this garden is 

 acknowledged by almoft every one, yet there are few 

 wlio make a proper choice of foil and fituation for 

 fuch a garden •, the modern tafl:e, which is, perhaps, 

 carried to as extravagant lengths, in laying open and ^ 

 throwing every obfl:ru£lion down, as the former cuf 

 torn of inclofing within walls was ridiculous \ fo that 

 now one frequently fees the Kitchen-garden removed 

 to a very great diftance from the houfe and' offices, 

 which is attended with great inconven*encies \ and 

 often fituated on a very bad foil, fometimes too moid, 

 and at others without water, fo that there is a great 

 cxpence in building walls and making the garden, 

 where there can te little hopes of fuccefs. '■ 

 'Nor will a Kitchen-garden be well attended to, when 

 it is fo fituated as to be out of fight of the poflefibr, 

 efpecially if the gardener has not a love and value for 

 * it, or if it lies at a grofit difl:ance from his habitation, 

 or the other parts of the garden j for when it fo hap- 

 pens, a great part' of the labourer's timie will be loft 

 in going from one part to the other: therefore, be- 

 fore the general plan of the pleafure-garden is fettled, 

 ^a proper piece of ground fliould be chofen for this 

 ' purpofe, and the plan fo adapted, as that the Kitchen- 

 garden may not become ofix-nfive to the fight, which 

 may be effedled by proper plantations orParubs to 

 , fcrecn the walls i and through thefe flirubs may be 



gontrivcQ 



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